Nicholas Pescod

A Lantzville Fire Rescue engine. (News Bulletin file)

Lantzville to pay duty chief firefighter for weekend work

Lantzville Fire Rescue's duty chief officer position will receive $150 per weekend

A Lantzville Fire Rescue engine. (News Bulletin file)
Carol Anne Hilton, chief executive officer and founder of the Indigenomics Institute, presents to members of the Greater Nanaimo Chamber of Commerce on Jan. 29 at the Coast Bastion Hotel. (Nicholas Pescod/News Bulletin)

Indigenous economic inclusion needs to be ‘new reality,’ former government advisor says

Carol Anne Hilton talks to Nanaimo business community about 'indigenomics'

Carol Anne Hilton, chief executive officer and founder of the Indigenomics Institute, presents to members of the Greater Nanaimo Chamber of Commerce on Jan. 29 at the Coast Bastion Hotel. (Nicholas Pescod/News Bulletin)
Tents set up on Nanaimo City Hall grounds on Wallace Street and on the south downtown waterfront at 1 Port Drive. Both properties were long-listed for supportive housing in 2018 and both went on to house tent cities that same year. (News Bulletin file photos)

City of Nanaimo long-listed 38 possible sites for supportive housing

Recently released in-camera information shows city-owned properties that were looked at in 2018

Tents set up on Nanaimo City Hall grounds on Wallace Street and on the south downtown waterfront at 1 Port Drive. Both properties were long-listed for supportive housing in 2018 and both went on to house tent cities that same year. (News Bulletin file photos)
A ground-breaking ceremony was held for the Courtyard by Marriott hotel on Gordon Street in downtown Nanaimo on Wednesday. (Chris Bush/News Bulletin)

Developer holds groundbreaking ceremony for downtown Nanaimo hotel

PEG Developments plans to build nine-storey hotel across from Vancouver Island Conference Centre

A ground-breaking ceremony was held for the Courtyard by Marriott hotel on Gordon Street in downtown Nanaimo on Wednesday. (Chris Bush/News Bulletin)
Lantzville District Hall. (News Bulletin file photo)

Lantzville opts against forming social media committee

Committee would have helped district council develop policy on social media behaviour

Lantzville District Hall. (News Bulletin file photo)
Mood Cannabis has opened its Metral Drive location and will open a second location on Victoria Avenue in the coming weeks. (Chris Bush/News Bulletin)

Licensed cannabis store opens in Nanaimo’s north end

Mood Cannabis Company's Metral Drive location opened Jan. 18

Mood Cannabis has opened its Metral Drive location and will open a second location on Victoria Avenue in the coming weeks. (Chris Bush/News Bulletin)
Lantzville District Hall. (News Bulletin file photo)

Lantzville approves 23-per cent property tax increase

District facing millions in upcoming infrastructure costs

Lantzville District Hall. (News Bulletin file photo)
Lantzville's district hall. (News Bulletin file)

Lantzville taps into new water connection policy

Newly adopted policy gives staff increased authority over issuing new water connections

Lantzville's district hall. (News Bulletin file)
An artist rendering of a proposed five-storey, 32-unit residential building and café restaurant at 930 Terminal Ave., according to planning documents available on the city’s website. (Joyce Reid Troost Architecture image)

Nanaimo council issues permit for mixed-use building on Terminal Avenue

29-unit residential building and cafe restaurant planned at 930 Terminal Ave.

An artist rendering of a proposed five-storey, 32-unit residential building and café restaurant at 930 Terminal Ave., according to planning documents available on the city’s website. (Joyce Reid Troost Architecture image)
The City of Nanaimo has reached a settlement with its former chief operations officer, Brad McRae. (News Bulletin file photo)

City of Nanaimo reaches settlement with fired chief operations officer

Brad McRae had launched human rights complaint after being fired while on medical leave

The City of Nanaimo has reached a settlement with its former chief operations officer, Brad McRae. (News Bulletin file photo)
Shelley Legin will be the city’s new general manager of corporate services. (Photo submitted)

City of Nanaimo announces hiring of new senior manager

Shelley Legin hired as the city's general manager of corporate services

Shelley Legin will be the city’s new general manager of corporate services. (Photo submitted)
Victor Mema. (News Bulletin file photo)

CPA Alberta to hold disciplinary hearing for Nanaimo’s ex-CFO

Victor Mema will be asked about allegations of $14,000 in personal expenses in Nanaimo

Victor Mema. (News Bulletin file photo)
Cast and crew on the set of Diversion, a film directed and produced by former City of Nanaimo CAO Tracy Samra. (Photo courtesy Vivian Davidson)

Nanaimo’s ex-CAO directing film about city manager taking on establishment’s ‘swampy ways’

Tracy Samra producing and directing movie called Diversion

Cast and crew on the set of Diversion, a film directed and produced by former City of Nanaimo CAO Tracy Samra. (Photo courtesy Vivian Davidson)
Donna Johnson leads a solidarity march through the streets of Nanaimo in support of the Wet’suwet’en First Nation on Jan. 10 (Nicholas Pescod/NEWS BULLETIN)

Solidarity rally supporting the Wet’suwet’en First Nation takes place in Nanaimo

Supporters urge B.C. government to respect indigenous rights

Donna Johnson leads a solidarity march through the streets of Nanaimo in support of the Wet’suwet’en First Nation on Jan. 10 (Nicholas Pescod/NEWS BULLETIN)
Cast and crew on the set of Diversion, a film directed and produced by former City of Nanaimo CAO Tracy Samra. (Photo courtesy Vivian Davidson)

Nanaimo’s ex-CAO directing film about city manager taking on establishment’s ‘swampy ways’

Tracy Samra producing and directing movie called Diversion

Cast and crew on the set of Diversion, a film directed and produced by former City of Nanaimo CAO Tracy Samra. (Photo courtesy Vivian Davidson)
Nanaimo courthouse, where a B.C. Supreme Court case was held in the fall around indigenous smudging in a public school classroom. (News Bulletin file photo)

Port Alberni mom who claimed indigenous smudging ceremony infringed on religious freedoms loses case

B.C. Supreme Court judge releases ruling in Servatius case against Alberni school district

Nanaimo courthouse, where a B.C. Supreme Court case was held in the fall around indigenous smudging in a public school classroom. (News Bulletin file photo)
Nanaimo courthouse, where a B.C. Supreme Court case was held in the fall around indigenous smudging in a public school classroom. (News Bulletin file photo)

Vancouver Island mom loses case on Indigenous smudging ceremony in daughter’s class

B.C. Supreme Court judge releases ruling in Servatius case against Alberni school district

Nanaimo courthouse, where a B.C. Supreme Court case was held in the fall around indigenous smudging in a public school classroom. (News Bulletin file photo)
An artist rendering of a proposed 10-storey hotel and condominium development at 1000 Stewart Ave. (de Hoog and Kierulf Architects)

10-storey hotel building proposed along Nanaimo’s waterfront

Building at 1000 Stewart Ave. would include 110 hotel suites plus condos and two conference rooms

An artist rendering of a proposed 10-storey hotel and condominium development at 1000 Stewart Ave. (de Hoog and Kierulf Architects)
Kari Oxler and her fiancé Graydon Aguiar rang in the New Year with the birth of their first child, a baby boy named Nasch Oxler Aguiar. (Photo submitted)

Nanaimo’s first baby of the new decade is a boy

Nasch Oxler Aguiar was born on Jan. 1 at 3:56 a.m. at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital

Kari Oxler and her fiancé Graydon Aguiar rang in the New Year with the birth of their first child, a baby boy named Nasch Oxler Aguiar. (Photo submitted)
Highway 19 and Ware Road in Lantzville. (News Bulletin file)

Ministry willing to work with Lantzville on highway concerns

Province will consider electronic travel signs, RCMP Island District won't add enforcement

Highway 19 and Ware Road in Lantzville. (News Bulletin file)